Another major goal was to get some newer pictures hung on the entrance ramp wall.
Many guys, having domestic experience, didn't want to get involved with the tasteful
placement of pictures :-((

Previous to placing these images, the picture crew measured a space on the hall way floor
and made trial layout out there - then moved operations into the 1401 room.

The items are now all hung - but the floor cleaners didn't have a
chance to clean the busy ramp - so -

Chris Reid with the foot rag, Robert Garner, Bill Newman getting ready to improving
the hanging of the Software Development display, Judith Haemmerle swinging the mop -
ain't we got fun ;-|

But there is also techie work - the CT tape system, all drives, seems to be
distorting the B channel - giving weird, but fortunately consistent errors.
Here is Frank King analyzing the error print out.

and Joe Preston

And Jim Hunt kept right on fixing our back log of bad SMS cards.
He made an interesting discovery !! The series of SMS cards in the Tape Adaptor Unit
(TAU) has been plagued with the iron leads of the transistors rusting through,
and breaking contact, becoming non-functional. He has acquired enough
experience/statistics to say that the transistors with fiber spacers
rust through a lot, and that the rubberoid spacers do not cause a problem.

Bob Erickson is no longer so young - rather not get down and scrub the floor,
rather not go up on a step ladder to play with fluorescent lights. And there seems
to be a sick relay causing reject hopper problems :-((

Allen,
Ron and I were in today, making video clips for Tuesday night.
The DE tape drives were working when we powered up (ran Stan's tape to
tape copy), but later they went out.
Writing doesn't seem to workL You can "go" from the TAU panel, but
that's about it.
Seems like a drive does a single write, then freezes.
Unless you can come in Sunday, I wouldn't try to fix it on Monday
(until perhaps the afternoon), as in the morning we'll mainly be
taking pics, etc.)
- Robert